Events
Synonyms for finish
Synonyms for finish: ending, coating, destination and polish. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for finish
Interchangeable with finish, one per sense
Audited under finish's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one finish carries in that sense.
- endingnoun, in the sense "event whose occurrence ends something"
- coatingnoun, in the sense "a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name finish as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- destinationdestination is a noun in the sense "the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)"
- polishpolish is a noun in the sense "a highly developed state of perfection"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under finish and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
event whose occurrence ends something
When these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show.
The true synonym
ending
Same sentence, swapped: When these final episodes are broadcast it will be the ending of the show.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- culture
- coating
- beginning
a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)
The boat had a metallic finish.
The true synonym
coating
Same sentence, swapped: The boat had a metallic coating.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for finish in the sentence quoted.
- close
- goal
- floor
Where finish turns up in the game
finish is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where finish is the trap
- accidentnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is stroke, in the sense "anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause", and finish is on the board beside it.
Play finish
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so finish reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from events at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. finish carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.